Real Madrid escapes by the hair of the trap of Granada

Real Madrid, the champion, stayed at the same distance from its arch-neighbor Atlético and fell away in second place, achieving its fifth consecutive victory and reached its guest Granada 2-0 with great difficulty on Wednesday in the fifteenth stage of the Spanish Football League.

The team of French coach Zinedine Zidane, which ends next Wednesday in the hospitality of Elche, condemns the victory of their penultimate match in 2020 to the Brazilian Casemiro and the brilliant Frenchman Karim Benzema, who scored the two goals of the match in 57 and 90 + 4 minutes, for the Real Club to get their fifth consecutive victory and tenth. season.

And after Real Sociedad suffered its third consecutive defeat by losing to Atlético de Madrid 0-2 on Tuesday, Real walked away on the court by six points from the Basque club and remained a partner of its neighbor up front with the goal advantage of the team of Argentine coach Diego Simeone, who played two games less than the champion.

Granada, who had not tasted defeat in their last five league, National Cup and “Europa League” games, was a tenacious match for Real at the start of the game and came close to opening the scoring in the first seconds if Antonio Puertas had not failed to hit the ball as he faced Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. After a fatal error by French defender Raphael Varane (1).

Zidane’s team little by little entered the air and began to threaten the goal of his guest if it was by Benzema or the German Toni Kroos, but without success due to the lack of solutions, with Real Club without their Croatian playmaker Luka Modric for the injury that affected Brazilian Rodrygo on Wednesday, which forced Marco Asensio to leave his post. (38).

Real then appeared completely unable to create opportunities and build attacks, finishing the first half while being at the same distance from their guest, but their performance improved at the beginning of the second half and they were close to the opening of the scoreboard with a triple chance. , but the post was planted in the attempt of Asensio, then the ball reached the Uruguayan Federico. Valverde, who followed her, but collided with the brilliance of Portuguese goalkeeper Roy Silva, to return to Benzema, who shot her over the crossbar (56).

But soon the Real Club made up for these successive opportunities thanks to the Brazilian Casemiro, who came to the net with a header after a cross from Asensio (57).

The result remained the same until injury time, when Benzema refused to finish the game without leaving a mark by scoring his twelfth goal in all competitions this season after a solo effort and a shot from ground level from outside of the region (90 + 4).